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Pippin friendica
I appear to have just wasted pretty much the whole day playing an automation base-building game in a way that, when I take a step back from it, I don't actually find all that much fun. I don't know why my brain prefers to do the repetitive things over and over instead of just automating, like the game intends, and freeing myself to move up to higher-level game mechanics. I just sit there manually shuffling resources back and forth, getting bored, for no reason. Clearly I just have stupid-brain.
Pippin friendica
@Samael :therian: Fits? I'm not sure what you mean.
Samael :therian: mastodon (AP)
Sorry, I meant to ask which game you're playing.

Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Pool day for some are about relaxing, others just aim for a good splash.
Cody doesn't have bad intentions, he just has terrible timing. Token, the raccoon, just accepts his fate.

Picture for Satti and Cody
Digital. Procreate.

I'm showing a short version of the time-lapse process video of this picture on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

But if you want to support me to keep creating art, personal projects and a new comic, but also getting access to the full process video of this and many other pictures I do (traditional and digital), full resolution of every picture, WIPs and drawings I haven't posted on my galleries yet; you can support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi.
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Thank you!

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)

β€œLearn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Atari Scene News mastodon (AP)
Lenny the Ninja, original Amiga tune converted for #Atari8bit computers https://youtu.be/4AJ3axBN_8w #atari #chiptune
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Flits mastodon (AP)
Cutest Spider-Chee! :neocat_heart:
Shadow Cheetah mastodon (AP)
Every neighborhood needs a chee just like this!

A reminder that in May I'm doing a charity bike ride for prostate cancer and men's mental health, the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride: https://www.gentlemansride.com/fundraisers/CharlotteDavis42069 Please donate and/or reblog! 🏍️
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I’ve been positing this every year for sixteen years.
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Leonid mastodon (AP)
happy hugs!
n3wjack mastodon (AP)
AND IT STILL ROCKS!! πŸ˜‚

One of the few days where nearly everything closed, and it’s not because β€œpeople deserve a break” or β€œto give people a chance to connect with their families and friends”, it’s magic sky man stuff. Ah well, I’ll take it.
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Tango mastodon (AP)
I’m not Rivvy or Ipa

Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Trax and Mausie
How this arrangement started? A domestic meow with a little raus (rat/mouse). It's been working surprisingly well. One naps, the other tags along.

Drawing for Trax, and featuring Mausie because why not.
One of the first drawings on his new guest book, yay!

Traditional. Markers.

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Juggling With Eggs mastodon (AP)

It’s a detail that none of us wants to think about…what will happen to our children and dependents after we die.

I remember making a #will before my kids were born and addressing the details felt grim even then.

But what if you have children with #SpecialNeeds? It turns out you need specialist advice, a standard will won’t help, it could make your child’s life far worse.

Worth reading.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/apr/19/special-needs-planning-will-trust-vulnerable-dependants

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Rallicat mastodon (AP)

πŸ“’πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ“’πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ“’πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ“’πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ“’πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ
And now at the half way mark! Force them to have the debate. Don't let our MPs rest easy!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

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Tilton Raccoon mastodon (AP)

Content warning: US Politics

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Rallicat mastodon (AP)

Blasted past 40k!

Keep sharing!!!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

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The Oatmeal mastodon (AP)
Paper shredder
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Magnus Eigengrau mastodon (AP)
Nothing has ever been more relatable in my entire life.
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🀣
Omg, I LOVE your humor so much!!! 🀣 ❀️

Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
Super fun fursuit drawover by
Nabi Wolfy (https://linktr.ee/nabiwolfy)! Box o' cat with added sass! πŸ’œ #FursuitFriday
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Dairishgoat mastodon (AP)

Hoppy Easter!
#FursuitFriday

Why is the Easter Bunny wearing a dirndl? Why is she hanging around on the Dingle peninsula?
Who cares - chocolate time!

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Content warning: Weekend protests

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Rifka mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Weekend protests

Content warning: Weekend protests


being neurodivergent is wild bc it's like

finishing things? the most incredible high you'll feel

actually doing things? literal torture. you will die in the liminal space of working on a thing

gotta love it

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Starstorm/Cyberlux mastodon (AP)
I felt that, especially the "torture" bit. I get told to do something, and I end up struggling to even do it in the first place

a stinky ox πŸ‚ mastodon (AP)
Here's some incorrect advice being given out by Forbes magazine about announcing price increases. Contrary to the nonsense stated here, actually using straightforward terms and owning the price increase makes the customer feel like the company is being honest, whereas using weaselly neutral language makes the customer feel like the company is being evasive, cowardly and dishonest.
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Mrs Beanbag mastodon (AP)
why would a price increase make a customer think they were being overcharged previously? that doesn't even make any sense.

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/lesbians-support-the-trans-and-non-binary-community-just-look-at-all-the-evidence/

"Lesbians have a strong history of supporting more marginalised parts of the community. We were there for gay men during the β€˜80s and β€˜90s when prejudice around AIDs and HIV was at a peak. So why would we not be there for the trans community, especially when they face a similar barrage of online hate, often founded on fiction rather than facts?"

Tracks. I've met gay guys with pretty awful opinions about trans people, but I've yet to meet a lesbian with similar opinions.

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)

Selection bias (for the set of "people I've met") definitely applies here - so take this with a grain of salt. Equally I'm up for meeting new people ... just not necessarily ones whose world view boils down to "this group of people I hate should be dead".

edit: A friend just messaged me to say "yeah I've met a couple but they're really rare"

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
And that's really the crux of the matter to me: trans rights boils down to "everyone has a right to life and liberty"
(if there's an ethics professor in the audience who wants to poke holes in my world view and personal ethics - go for it, just cite your sources.. sometimes it's nice to have my views challenged because I've come out the other end with a better understanding of the world and myself).
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trans people are really cool and if you don't think they are then you're not cool, sorry not sorry but those are the rules
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Ren mastodon (AP)

I've run across a paradox where I am trans and therefore cool but don't think I'm cool so therefore I'm not cool.

*implodes into nonexistence*

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Ret mastodon (AP)
we’ve been trying to reach you about your extended validation certificate
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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Somewhere between arriving and leaving, Bowie found the perfect moment to play a song. Not for a crowd, not for applause, just because the tune was ready, and the world felt quiet enough to hear it.

Picture for Bowie Bunny
Digital. Procreate

You can watch a quick time-lapse process video on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
I also shared the full version of that process video on Patreon and Ko-Fi, you can watch it at supporting me, and also that helps my art career and to keep doing this for a living. Thank you! Also you would get to see many pictures I've drawn lately that I haven't shared here.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco

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Trans rights are human rights.
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Furo mastodon (AP)
Things got out of hands pretty quickly-
With @Foxyn ✨
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@Foxyn Thank you so much again for being on Mastadon too Furo. For when Bluesky inevitably runs out of capitol, it'll be so nice to already have an awesome, truly free and open place ^^

Even now I still prefer it LOL

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Furo mastodon (AP)
@TrashyFur eeeeeeeee you're welcome !!!

Rallicat mastodon (AP)

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Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vkij4nukia5yta6xjaep6esl/post/3lmwgteadpk2n

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Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)

Some time last year, someone screen-shared a VSCode editing session with me, and I noticed it was highlighting brackets in source code in different colours according to their nesting level mod 3, so that it was easier to see which ones matched which.

That wasn't enough by a long way to make me switch editor from #emacs, but it seemed like a cool feature, and I occasionally thought about it wistfully.

Last week I mentioned it in passing to a friend, who said "Oh, in vim that feature is called 'rainbow brackets'". Then suddenly it was easy to find implementations for emacs too. I tried out https://github.com/Fanael/rainbow-delimiters the next day to see if I'd _really_ like it. After a few days, it's clear I'm going to keep it (after reconfiguring it so I can actually see the difference).

Knowing the right search term is everything!

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Andy Wootton mastodon (AP)
I once tried to learn Lisp in monochrome. Not recommended! :-)
Moritz Dietz mastodon (AP)
yep, super handy! Couldn't live without it either

Makenshi Fox mastodon (AP)

The UK supreme court has ruled that gender is determined by biology. This is a dark day. It will cause more attacks against people just trying to live their lives.

https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2024_0042_judgment_aea6c48cee.pdf

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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)

Learn to repair things.

It's a potent weapon against enshittification.

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
And I'm just going to come out and say it, "AI", as in LLM's and all this stuff that companies like OpenAI, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google are pumping out as fast as they can, is 100% being used for enshitification.
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XKCD Bot mastodon (AP)

Content warning: #3076 The Roads Both Taken

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(((2024 YR4))) mastodon (AP)

Content warning: #3076 The Roads Both Taken


seeing streaming bundles that are just like cable packages from 20 years ago genuinely reminds me that time is a flat circle
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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)

As long as there is a way to make something make more money, some person that values money over all will force it to do that thing.

This is part of why I've started leaning so heavily away from things where the primary motivation for them is making money.

Samael :therian: mastodon (AP)
"Turbo" 🀦

Q ✨ mastodon (AP)

out of context work chat

Unfortunately, in the capitalist world we exist in, the rights of trademark holders come before the rights of people.
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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Adam and Jakey, two dalmatian dogs with funny colors.

Picture for them, during TFF.
Traditional. Acrylics

Also I recorded video of this two pieces, that were worked at the same time (to match colors and also to take advantage of the shades of paint that I was preparing)
You can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And as always, there is a full time-lapse video version of this, exclusive for my Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters, you can download it, as well as full resolution versions, WIPs and exclusive non-posted art at supporting me, also that way you help me a lot to keep living from making art, which is something I appreciate a really lot.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!

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The wizard finished the incantation, and the demon appeared in the sigil.

"Let us continue."

"Do you really not have any friends who could help," the demon asked

"I cannot show weakness."

"You'd show strength."

"Quiet!"

The demon sat, muttering "I can't wait for the invention of therapists."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories #vss

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anthracite char mastodon (AP)
A few centuries later, nobody was getting appointments with therapists any more, and the magicians were told not to make such a fuss, and
the little bit of overload from their environment, which consisted only of offices and taped announcements, could certainly be solved with a crisp "No!".
filobus mastodon (AP)
or artificial intelligence!

Pippin friendica
I just need to get a USB power supply (10W is probably plenty) with a 3 metre cable ending in a type C connector, for reasonable money and without going crawling back to bloody Amazon. It's just so hard to find stuff, for items like this where there's so many cheap crap versions of it around, that is likely to be of decent quality, without resorting to ludicrously expensive high-end-branded stuff. My usual method of avoiding Amazon is ebay but for this particular search it's full of so much questionable junk it's hard to find anything that's likely to be worth buying.
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Makenshi Fox mastodon (AP)
if you like I can mail you a USB-C F/F adapter so you just attach a second cable; or alternatively you could get a power supply with a socket (female) and use a 3M USB-C cable
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Pippin friendica
@Makenshi Fox Thank you, although it turns out when I took stock of what we actually have here already I may have what's needed on hand after all. I got a couple of 3m A to C cables recently and thought my dad had broken one of them already, but on testing it seems fine. Maybe he just wasn't pushing it all the way into his phone, I dunno. Anyway, I think I can arrange it so a charger is spare for this, and along with that cable I should be fine, thank you. :)

Pippin friendica
I can't get on with longer-term things I really ought to get done because I'm constantly feeling on-edge, waiting for the next interruption. I guess this is what home-makers always have.
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